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Intonjane [pronunciation?] is a Xhosa rite of passage into womanhood practiced in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. [1] The ritual takes place after a girl has had her first period. [1] This ritual is symbolic of a girl's sexual maturity and ability to conceive.
The rite of passage involves bathing the baby and dressing him or her in new clothes. The baby's outing is accompanied by both the mother and the father, siblings if any, as well some nearby loved ones, such as grandparents and friends. [53] [54] Annaprashanam is the rite of passage where the baby is fed solid food for the first time.
A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change of status in society . In cultural anthropology the term is the Anglicisation of rite de passage , a French term innovated by the ethnographer Arnold van Gennep in his work Les rites de ...
Rumspringa (Pennsylvania German pronunciation: [ˈrʊmˌʃprɪŋə]), [2] also spelled Rumschpringe or Rumshpringa (lit. ' running around ', [3] from Pennsylvania German rumschpringe ' to run around; to gad; to be wild '; [4] compare Standard German herum-, rumspringen ' to jump around '), is a rite of passage during adolescence, used in some Amish communities.
The rites of passage during apprentice education varied in the respective guilds. [31] [32] Suśruta and Charaka developed the initiation ceremony for students of Āyurveda. [33] The Upanayana rite of passage was also important to the teacher, as the student would therefrom begin to live in the gurukula (school). [34]
Lebollo la banna is a Sesotho term for male initiation.. Lebollo is a cultural and traditional practice that transitions boys in the Basotho society to manhood. It is a rite of passage where bashanyana or bashemane (transl. "uncircumcised boys") pass puberty and enter adulthood to become monna (transl. "men") by circumcision.
A rite of passage is a ritual event that marks a person's transition from one status to another, including adoption, baptism, coming of age, graduation, inauguration, engagement, and marriage. Rites of passage may also include initiation into groups not tied to a formal stage of life such as a fraternity .
The rite is performed in April every year. [2] It is used to usher virgin girls into puberty or womanhood, [ 3 ] and signifies that a participating girl is of age to be married. [ 4 ] Parents, upon hearing the announcement of the rite, send their qualified girls to the chief priest.